Mitchell v. Bond
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Tunica county. TIon. A. M’cC. Kimbrougi-i, Chancellor. Mrs. Bond, appellee, was complainant in the court below; Mitchell, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor! the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently apparent from the opinion of the court. The court below 'should have sustained the demurrer; the bill of complaint did not show a perfect title to the land in the complainant.
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From the chancery court of Tunica county. TIon. A. M’cC. Kimbrougi-i, Chancellor. Mrs. Bond, appellee, was complainant in the court below; Mitchell, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor! the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The facts are sufficiently apparent from the opinion of the court. The court below 'should have sustained the demurrer; the bill of complaint did not show a perfect title to the land in the complainant. Pierce v. Hunter, 73 Miss., 754; Wilkinson v. Hiller, 71 Miss., 678; Chiles v. Gallagher, 67 Miss., 413; Hart v. Bloomfield, 66…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered tbe o ion of tbe court.
The paper title of appellee, as defi, ,ned in the bill, is perfect from the government down to thej .ppellee. The only paper title set up by the appellant is a deed made on October 14, 1880, by Gwin and Hemmingway, liquidating levee commissioners, and commissioners of the chancery court of Hinds county, in the case of Green against Gibbs, et al. The land was sold on May 12, 1869, by the sheriff of Tunica county, to the liquidating levee board for delinquent taxes. On October 22, 1873, appellee redeemed the land from H. W. Warren, levee…
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